Burg Eltz - Rick Steves' Favorite Castle - May 2019 

It’s my favorite castle it’s amazing

Celtic times? Wasn't this area already Germanic during the final centuries of the Roman Empire? But the transition from Celtic to Germanic in Germany has always fascinated me, and there doesn't seem to be much said about it, so if you know more about it please tell me.

Me too! Stationed at Hahn AB

and an additional photo inside without a flash... if you are clever and the guides don't care..... and if you post these photos.... your photos are helping that beauty to survive another 800 years.....

Usually it is pretty busy, but I went on a weekday in early May. Plus it was cool and cloudy and eventually started raining. I’m sure that kept people away.

Actually there are more than two different masonary styles: The castle footing is on Celtic ruins. Above that there are Roman ruins, above that is Frankish and later Germanis architekture.

The Lion with the red background is the Eltz coat of arms. It's the "from the golden lion" line. The other Eltz lineage has a silver lion. I don't know what the under part with the pattern represents. Three families of Eltz have lived in this castle. Each of them had a different coat of arms. One half lion and the other half something else to distinct them from each other. Soo... The thing on the right with the black background is a Wolfsangel. It was a tool for catching wolfs. You put animal meat or guts on it and place it high enough on a tree. The wolf jumps for it, bites and his snout gets stuck in this thing (it better said gets through the snout). He will painfully die if no one is coming to end his life quickly. Well, this tool of course doesn't exist anymore since a long time. But is a heraldic symbol on many coat of arms.

I agree. The video could be improved with music.

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